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168. Compensation again

The evidence is so strong that it is useless for Zhao Yunxiang not to admit it.

Chu Qingfeng is quite proud of himself. Although facing Zhao Yunxiang's shirk, he can think of the consequences of Qin State attacking Zhao State openly because of this matter. He finally remembered his responsibility as a member of Zhao State. The words admitted that he was 'forced', not a private affair.

But this kind of sophistry is useless at all, the tyrant is determined to take advantage of this opportunity to attack Zhao Guo, how could he just give up.

It doesn't matter if Chu Qingfeng is stubborn, Zhao Yunxiang is a selfish person who is greedy for life and afraid of death.They only locked him up for a few days to scare them, and no matter how nice they were, Zhao Yunxiang decisively wrote down a statement of guilt for her own life, fully explaining all the details of her affair, and then ran away with the gold and silver. up.

From Zhao Yunxiang's point of view, she was escorted back to the country of Zhao at this moment and her only option was to die. She would definitely not be a princess. Instead of this, it would be better to agree to the tyrant's conditions, explain it honestly, and spend the rest of her life in hiding with gold and silver.

As for Zhao Guo's life and death, she has nothing to do with her. She is just a little girl, how can she take on the task of saving the country?

When Chu Qingfeng knew that Zhao Yunxiang left the "confession" and ran away because he didn't care about the people of his own country, he couldn't stand the blow anymore and vomited blood and passed out. It's just a ghost who was so fascinated that he fell in love with such a selfish and cold-blooded woman!

But it's useless for him to regret, the matter has come to this point, the deal is done, the most difficult thing to buy in this world is regret medicine.

Tang Yu had only pity for him, but no sympathy for him. He had mentioned the other party earlier, but the other party did not seize the opportunity. Now, no matter how regretful it is, he can only swallow it himself, and others can only sigh.

At the same time, he came back to his senses and strengthened the education of those kings, grandsons and daughters of the Qin Kingdom, so that there must be no more disasters like Zhao Yunxiang...

After the matter was settled, the tyrant immediately sent someone to take the confession letters of Chu Qingfeng and Zhao Yunxiang to Zhao Guo day and night for questioning again.

Jiang Hanyi was not sent this time, and they had clear conditions for interrogating Zhao Guo this time, so they did not need to discuss any further, and there was no need to give Zhao Guo any more face, and there was no need to send Jiang Hanyi with such a status.

And Jiang Hanyi was too busy to set up the "Zhanhu Bureau" and didn't have time. The other party had just reunited with his lover and Tang Yu couldn't bear to dismantle it, so he raised it with the tyrant.

However, the envoys to the Zhao Kingdom were also the tyrant's confidantes. After all, if he wanted to break the situation of the Seven Kingdoms, he had to fight here, and he must not be sloppy in the slightest.

Chu Qingfeng was escorted on the road decadent and remorseful, and tried to commit suicide countless times on the way, but all failed. It was not until he arrived in Zhao State that he numbly accepted his fate when he saw King Zhao.

When King Zhao saw the Qin envoy approaching aggressively and Chu Qingfeng who was tied up, he had a vague premonition in his heart. After hearing the purpose and reason of Qin envoy's visit, Zhao Wang fainted on the spot.

The rest of Zhao Guochen's eyes were also blackened, and their legs were weak and they almost fell to the ground.

"Your princess has been restless on the way to Qin, and you have attacked and robbed people one after another without stopping. We thought it was just the princess's fame, but we didn't expect it to be an affair!"

"... At the banquet, the princess didn't know the rules and made a joke. Our king cares about the people and really doesn't want to go to war. He kindly maintains the relationship between Qin and Zhao. Who knew that you would humiliate the majesty of our Qin state! Not only did you send an incomplete body The princess is here, how dare she openly filthy and mess up the palace, even her stomach is getting bigger!"

"After the incident came to light, Princess Yunxiang did not cooperate with the pleading and tried to escape. Fortunately, she still knew to leave a confession letter to make amends, otherwise our Qin State will definitely send troops to crusade immediately!"

The envoy asked angrily, "Now King Zhao, how do you plan to explain?"

Zhao Wang and Zhao ministers were dumbfounded, they didn't know how to answer this question at all, everyone didn't know if Princess Yunxiang went to the Qin Kingdom with a perfect body, but the princess gave King Qin a cuckold before she went to bed, this is not clear at all unclean.

The most important thing is that Zhao Yunxiang also personally wrote the "Letter of Confession", which set everything in stone, leaving Zhao Guo no room to maneuver.

Compared to hating Chu Qingfeng, a hot-headed adulterer, everyone hated the selfish Zhao Yunxiang even more. The other party didn't care about the life and death of Zhao Guo behind him!

"This matter, this matter is too sudden, our country of Zhao has absolutely no intention of humiliating, please ask the envoy to rest for a while, let the widow wait for a good discussion before discussing how..."

King Zhao, who had come to his senses, just wanted to delay the time. At this moment, all the monarchs and ministers were so shocked that their minds were confused and they were completely unable to deal with it.

"It's okay to rest, but at this time, King Zhao, you don't need to discuss any more. Our king said that if you want to settle the matter, there are only two requirements, and you can choose one of them."

"any request?"

"First, pay compensation for seven cities, 30 civilian husbands, and [-] women. Our king does not want to cause the people to suffer due to war. In recent years, our Qin State has not had a good grain harvest, and we need labor to reclaim wasteland. Women are rewards for us. We will be sent back soon. Soldiers from the village get married and don’t treat them harshly.”

"Secondly, your Zhao State has become a subsidiary of our Qin State. We will not interfere in your internal affairs and pay tribute every year. You can discuss the two options yourself, and we will not accept bargaining."

When everyone in Zhao State heard the words, they almost all rejected the second choice at once, so don't even think about it!Attachment is submission in disguise. It is bullshit not to interfere in internal affairs. Once attached, what kind of country is Zhao Guo?

"Let me think about it..."

Zhao Wang waved his hand feebly, expressing consideration, delaying the time before thinking of a solution.

The envoy Qin understood their thoughts and didn't say much. He only gave a deadline of seven days. If Zhao Guo couldn't come up with a satisfactory solution after seven days, then the war between Qin and Zhao would be a foregone conclusion.

King Zhao's complexion was not good, but he could do something about it. After going down, he lost his temper very violently, and then called a private meeting with Zhao officials to discuss a solution.For Zhao Yunxiang, everyone is really in the mood to drink blood and eat meat, but now the most important thing is to appease Qin Guo.

Starting a war is not as simple as talking about it. Once a war starts, there are too many things involved. Fighting a war not only consumes the national treasury, labors the people and wastes money, but more importantly, it is afraid that other countries will take the opportunity to take advantage of it.

The situation of the Seven Kingdoms is now at a stalemate. The Zhao Kingdom is not strong in the first place. When it really fights with the Qin Kingdom, the soldiers in front of them have not yet arrived on the battlefield.

"This battle cannot be fought. Even if we can ask Jiang Guo for help, if other people join forces, Jiang Guo will not be able to keep us. Since the King of Qin gave us a choice, I am afraid he is inclined to reconcile. Otherwise, with Yin Yu's character, he must not be afraid. Directly disrupt the situation and start fighting together..."

Zhao Guo was afraid of a sneak attack from behind, but Qin Guo was not afraid. Qin Guo was already strong. If he really wanted to attack Zhao Guo, in order to avoid future troubles, he would definitely drag the other five countries into the water and fight together.

In this kind of melee, the Qin State's troops can completely stabilize, but their Zhao State can't, and they are definitely the first to be wiped out.

So for now, agreeing to Qin's compensation conditions is the best choice.

Just seven cities, 30 civilian husbands and [-] women, this is also a very painful thing for Zhao Guo.

Women don't matter. In this era, the status of women is very low and worthless. It is very normal to buy and sell them as gifts. One hundred thousand women are not important given the population of Zhao.

The seven cities can also be cut with pain. Who told Qin to catch Princess Yunxiang to death, and there was no room for rebuttal or justification.There are only 30 civilian husbands is a hesitant problem.

In the era of backward machinery, manpower is the main contribution value of society. The reason why ancient people favored boys over girls is that boys have the strength to work and support their families.Because the yield of the fields is low, more land needs to be planted to feed the people. This kind of strength is really incomparable to women.

Also, besides farming, the biggest function of men is to join the army and fight.Really paying 30 civilian husbands to the Qin State, wouldn't that be equivalent to sending 30 troops there, and they didn't believe that the important people of the Qin State were going to open up wasteland!

But if you don't agree to this condition... Qin Guo's attitude is also very clear, if you don't agree, you will fight, there is no discussion.

"Your Majesty, from the point of view of humble ministers, the loss of the war is too great, and our chances of winning are too small. We might as well agree to Qin's request. Didn't they say that they want civilian husbands to open up wasteland, so we will choose older ones to send them over. As long as they are able to do farm work, it is considered a job, if they are unwilling, it means that Qin has wolf ambitions, and the other five countries will definitely not sit idly by."

The people of Zhao Guo have lived a stable life for a long time, and they don't really want to fight. If they are not forced to do so, they would rather suffer a little loss than fight.It is true that their chances of winning in the Seven Kingdoms are too low in a real fight, and it is a last resort.

The king of Zhao has already reached the age of enjoying his life, so naturally he doesn't want to work hard and fight, let Zhao Guo perish in his own hands, and leave a stigma on future generations.

"That's all, then call the Qin envoy to talk about it." Zhao Wang could only nod in depression, hating the daughter he once loved to the extreme at this moment.

The intention of Qin State to ask civilian husbands is indeed to work, and has no idea of ​​​​the army. Zhao Guo is not at ease if he wants them.So it doesn't matter if the folk husband is older, as long as he still has the strength to work, he is not really old, weak, sick or disabled.

The envoy's staff nodded in thought,

"What you say is fine, but the maximum age of a civil husband cannot exceed 45 years old. In addition, women must be between 16 and 25 years old, and they must be in good health. They must not be indiscriminate. Otherwise, if there is another problem, your country of Zhao will wait for our Qin army to come to the city. Bar!"

Zhao Chen was relieved when he heard the words, and he just agreed, as long as he agreed, this time they were crazy to do something.

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169. Some people are happy while others are sad

Zhao Wang had no choice but to agree to the compensation conditions, and ordered to recruit civilian husbands and women from the people.

The name is "Qin-Zhao Friendship", but the truth is not dared to tell at all. The incident caused by Zhao Yunxiang can no longer be described as a royal scandal, but has escalated to the level of public anger and insult to the country. The recruited men and women were all apologizing to Zhao Yunxiang, and that would definitely cause an uproar!

Thanks to the underdeveloped information in ancient times, if the news of Qin was deliberately blocked, it would not be able to spread to the people of Zhao. The consolation of self-deception, as long as the limelight passes.

The people of Zhao State didn’t know the situation, and they were very strange about the edict to recruit civilian husbands and women. Although they couldn’t resist, they still talked about it. They really didn’t understand why they should send civilian husbands and women to maintain the friendship between Qin and Zhao. Isn’t it gold and silver treasures? best?

The common people don't know much about the truth, but it is indeed a serious matter to be separated from their families.

That's all for women, but according to the age of civilian husbands collected by the government, men around the age of 40 are basically the fathers of the family, and more importantly, there are grandfathers. These are the elders!How can it be easily sent to other countries?

"Why recruit civilian husbands? Can I come back after I go? According to the conditions, only my father is the most suitable for my family!"

"Yeah, yeah, let's forget about women, let's marry our daughters far away, anyway, Qin is considered rich, and we won't be hungry if we marry a soldier, but how long will it take us men to go to Qin to work as civilian husbands? ?”

"I don't know why, I don't want to do it! There is only my son and a man in my family. My son has just turned fifteen. What will we do with our mother and son when my man is gone..."

"What is the friendship between the two countries? Wouldn't it be good if the king gave gold and silver treasures? I haven't heard of giving them away."

Although it was not conscription this time, the resistance of the people was still very serious. Everyone knew that every time the government took the family members away, it was doomed that few would come back alive.This time, although he said he was going to work as a civilian husband, he didn't say when he would come back. Everyone was worried, no one was a fool.

But the government dares to explain clearly that these people will definitely not come back after going to Qin State, even if Qin State releases them, they will not allow these people to come back again, because they are afraid that the matter of Princess Yunxiang will be exposed, which will definitely arouse public indignation. Swinging.

"Your Majesty's decision, how can we government officials figure out the specific intentions? This is related to the stability of diplomatic relations between the two countries. Anyway, how many places in each village, you can decide through discussion. If you are selected, a man will be subsidized with 15 taels of silver, and a woman will be subsidized with 10 taels of silver." Two silver..."

Officials didn't dare to reveal too much, so they could only play Tai Chi in an ambiguous manner, and then throw out the request to get away.

The people of Zhao State were very dissatisfied, but they had to do so if they were not willing. They could only go home and discuss who should be born in the family.

Although the requirements for recruiting candidates this time are relatively loose, no one is willing to leave their hometowns, and women are also unwilling to leave their men as widows.

"No! It's time for your father to work hard for half his life to enjoy family happiness. You unfilial sons want your father to be a peasant husband in the Qin Kingdom. Doesn't that mean that he will die of exhaustion outside!"

"Mother, if the father-in-law doesn't go, the father-in-law has to go. Anyway, he is just going to work. He is a peasant, not a coolie, and he won't die from exhaustion. Our children have just been born, and you and your father-in-law can watch the baby grandson without a father Take care of it? How can a child survive without a father?"

"Then what's your father doing! A bunch of beasts!"

"Father, you are getting old, let the child go. Anyway, the child is not married, and he is strong and strong. If you are not in good health, you will never come back."

"My son, this is going to the Qin country, not the frontier, who knows if I can come back, how can you tell my father to bear it..."

"Mother, I don't want to marry to Qin, I don't know anyone there, please mother, I don't want to go, woo woo."

"Damn girl! If you don't go, who will you go? If you stay in the village and you can't get married, it would be great if you go to the Qin State. The ones who marry are soldiers who will keep you fed. Our family can get 10 taels of subsidy for your brother. go!"

"Let the big girl go. If she doesn't go, why not send my daughter? Master, do you have the heart to watch our mother and daughter separate?"

"But……"

"Father, I'll go, but from now on, you and I are no longer father and daughter, and I will leave with my mother's tablet."

"Hey, big girl..."

Situations like this occur in every household in Zhao State. Once they encounter a test, it is the time for humanity to show.All things in the world are like this.

In a frenzy, no matter how confused and complained the people were, King Zhao finally got together 30 civilian husbands and 10 women who were qualified and handed them over to Qin envoys, and assisted them in escorting them to Qin, leaving behind the mournful people. Sow a seed for subjugation...

But King Zhao and Zhao ministers were also full of resentment in their hearts, hating Princess Yunxiang who caused such a disaster.

King Zhao loved him so much before, but now he hates her so much. Not only was the queen punished and rejected by King Zhao, but King Zhao also ordered to secretly send people to Qin to look for Zhao Yunxiang.

As a princess, not only did she fail to take up the responsibility of a princess, and brought such a scandal to the Zhao country, but she even wrote a confession letter for her own life and ignored the Zhao country's life and death. A hundred times is not enough!

As for Zhao Yunxiang's life after leaving Qin Palace, life was actually not easy.

Although Tang Yu and Yin Yu didn't attack her, it was not easy for a pampered princess to live in the folk by herself.

Zhao Yunxiang is also a decisive person. She beat the child in her stomach immediately after leaving the palace. She didn't really love Chu Qingfeng, how could she give birth to the child, and she still hoped to find a man who would love her and start a new life.

Although she can't be as beautiful as a princess now, the gold and silver she got in exchange for her confession is enough for her to be stable for the rest of her life.

But soon reality hit her hard.She has a beautiful appearance, carries a lot of gold and silver, and has no experience in folk life, but she has no strength to fight back. She is simply a super fat sheep in the eyes of those who have evil intentions.

Not long after leaving Wangcheng, she was targeted by hooligans. Not only was she robbed of her money and her innocence was lost, but she was also sold to a remote and backward village in the deep mountains and old forests.

Originally, with her looks, she could be sold as a mistress in a bustling city, but it was also because she was so beautiful that those local hooligans worried that she would be a rich lady and would cause trouble if she was brought back, so they simply sold her at a low price. It is safer to go to a remote mountain village and never get out for a lifetime.

In the end, the people sent by the King of Zhao did not find her, and when she escaped from the deep mountains, the country of Zhao was destroyed, and all the people of the country of Zhao who learned that it was her who started the disaster of destroying the country did not want to find her to eat meat Drinking blood to vent anger, to quell the hatred of ruining the country and destroying the family!

The once noble and beautiful princess has become a street mouse that everyone shouts and beats.

Compared with the mourning of the people of Zhao State, the people of Qin State are very happy.

After a lively and fair vote, all the villages, towns, cities and counties in the Qin State elected corresponding representatives of the people.Among these people are old and young, literate and illiterate, merchants and aristocrats as well as white men, but without exception, they are all very popular in the local area, elected by the people themselves.

Among them, there are not any people with bad intentions who want to cheat, but they are all caught out. The light ones are sentenced to prison, and the serious ones are directly beheaded. There is no room for negotiation.

And with the continuous private visits of imperial servants to punish corrupt officials everywhere, the local government servants are also trembling and dare not do the previous small tricks.

This was an unprecedented act of justice. For the first time, the people respected and defended the king from the bottom of their hearts.

In the cheering and watching of the people behind them, these representatives who carried the hope of the people also went to the king city with their chests upright, with expectations and excitement in their hearts.

Tang Yu and Yin Yu also attached great importance to this "people's meeting", and arranged people to prepare for the reception and meeting early on. The army alone cannot suppress the imperial court for a long time. If you want Qin to be better, the people will be harmonious. There needs to be a check and balance among officials.

The development of a country requires the participation of everyone, not just officials. Only when the people work together can we create a stronger future.

After Yin Yu ascended the throne, there was a lot of commotion. Although it was within the territory of Qin State, it is impossible that all countries did not get any news.

Although all the decrees made by the tyrant are for the people, and it seems that they only want to improve the lives of the people and have no other ideas, but how can people in other countries rest assured?I really believe that Yin Yu has no intention of expanding his territory.

More importantly, the news of high-yield sweet potatoes is what the other six countries are most concerned about.

Solving the food and clothing of the people is a common problem for all countries now. How can Qin want to monopolize sweet potatoes?Must have a share!Food is also one of the competitions of national strength.

Therefore, before the first people's meeting of the Qin State began, they first received invitations from the envoys of the six countries.

It's here to gain benefits, and it's also to find out the truth. What does Qin's new king mean by making big moves?Violent as Yin Yu really became a benevolent monarch who loves the people like a son?

Tang Yu was not worried about the greeting cards sent by the Six Nations, "If they want to come and see, let's let them see. I'm not afraid that they pay attention to precautions, but I'm afraid that they don't care..."

In fact, he was very happy. The unknown is the most terrifying thing. The more vague the Six Nations are about their situation, the more wary they will be.Qin State is already strong enough to compete with Jiang State for the number one country, and they don't need the rest of the country to be afraid.

Only the more the six countries 'understand' them, the more at ease they will be, and they will turn their attention away.

If you want sweet potatoes, you can. Qin is a country that is very 'willing to share' and 'help'. Anyway, everyone will be a 'family' in the future. Hello, me, everyone can be good, right?

It is also fine to imitate education and other things, as long as the king of your country has the courage to wash the court like a tyrant, and is not afraid of touching the country and can suppress the civil strife, we will be determined. We don't mind learning and exchanging with each other!

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